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As soon as Murakami's meeting was over, Gu Gang got on his bike, hurried to the town, found Liu Shuai, and told him in detail about the meeting today.

Liu Shuai hummed with satisfaction, threw him a pack of cigarettes and waved his hand.

Gu Gang took it with both hands, nodded and bowed, and walked away.

Zhou Gui came out from the inner room and said, "It seems there is no problem. Let's proceed as planned."

Liu Shuai hesitated to speak.

"Just say whatever you want to say." Zhou Gui lit a cigarette and sat down.

Liu Shuai said, "Brother, I've thought about it and it seems that there is something wrong with our plan! We can't possibly buy all the herbs in Hushan Village. If any of them leak some, the pharmaceutical factory can still take them for evaluation and give a good price!"

Zhou Gui smiled and said, "You've learned to think now, that's a good thing."

"I originally thought you couldn't ask this question, but I didn't expect you to start thinking about it. That's great. I'll talk to you about it."

He tapped the table lightly. "My first reaction was to buy all the goods from Hushan Village this year so that their cooperative could not continue. But you have to know that plans need to be adjusted and optimized at any time."

"What you brought back that day gave me confidence again. I realized that his cooperative is not invincible, but the specific way to defeat it needs to be continuously refined."

He stretched out his finger, dipped it in the tea in the cup, and drew two circles on the table. "Now Hushan Village will be divided into two parts, one is the cooperative, and the other is outside the cooperative."

"The cooperative's herbs are no longer a problem, but we still need to buy herbs from outside the cooperative. If we say that we are losing money because the cooperative doesn't sell to us, so we lower the price and they lose a lot of money, what will they do?"

Liu Shuai's eyes lit up, "They will definitely be jealous and envious, and they might even go looking for trouble with that Huo guy."

"If we're lucky and some mass incident happens, the cooperative might even go bankrupt." Zhou Gui crossed his legs, looking as if he was sitting on a throne.

Liu Shuai slapped his thigh and said, "Great! We don't need to use any tricks. We just need to stir up internal strife among them. This way, even the town leaders won't be able to say anything!"

He immediately asked in confusion: "Why did Gu Gang have to put so much effort into this?"

"How can things be so simple? We need to make multiple preparations." Zhou Gui smiled slightly, "This Gu Gang is the real killer."

Zhou Gui blew out a smoke ring and smiled, "I don't really want to buy out all their herbs, but I want to plant a nail in their way and let the people in the pharmaceutical factory know that these local farmers are untameable. They will follow whoever gives them milk and makes more money! When the pharmaceutical factory understands this, the cooperative is doomed to fail."

"There is another more crucial point. If the village official guesses this and tries his best to persuade these money-hungry peasants, but fails to persuade them, will he become discouraged and feel that he is a hopeless case? If he doesn't want to work anymore, then won't Hushan Village still be ours?"

Liu Shuai suddenly realized what was going on and looked at Zhou Gui with admiration, "Brother! You are too fierce!"

On the second day after the meeting in Hushan Village, a piece of news spread in Hushan Village.

The three drug dealers in the town all said that because of the establishment of the cooperative, they had one less group's harvest. This year the purchase price from other groups was reduced by 2 yuan from 6.5 yuan per kilogram last year to 4.5 yuan!

Two yuan per kilogram, based on the average quantity of 200 to 300 kilograms, that would be four hundred to six hundred yuan!

For the poor and backward villagers of Hushan Village, this is a huge sum of money!

And it is a huge sum of money that concerns every household!

The villagers in group three were secretly happy, but the villagers in groups one and two were immediately dissatisfied. They rushed towards the village committee in groups of three or five, demanding an explanation from the village!

It's you who set up this unlucky cooperative and caused us so much trouble!

RNM, lose money!